Wondering at What Age Do Children Wear Panties to Bed

I think she is old enough. Putting pull ups on her at bed is giving her the comfort to wet the bed. If she's in panties she probably won't. You have to just breakdown and do it. When my duaghter was potty trained I put on pull ups at bed. One night we forgot and she maybe had one accident. Put her in panties and a waterproof mattress pad on the bed and give it a try. Hope this helps. Good luck.

patience is what is needed here. You will know it is the right time when she can sleep the whole night without accidents. The normal range for this is any where from 3 to 6 years old so don't stress on it. Good luck to you

My son is about to be 4 in March He has been sleeping in shorts for about 6 months. I know it may be hard but I wake up about halfway through his sleep time and have him go bathroom. I don't feel comfortable sleeping thru the night knowing that my son may pee his bed and let him sleep in it until I get up. It is a sacrifice I am making. I just think back when I was a kid. Eventually it will stop. The pro of waking him up is less laundry, sheets, underwear, and pajamas. the con is you will miss about 5 mins of sleep a night. (if that is really considered a con.) He may pee the bed even when I stop his fluid intake 1hr before. This has worked for me.

I think it's perfectly normal for her to still be wetting diapers at night at her age. Bladders develop at different rates in children - I wouldn't worry about it now.

My son wore undies to be as soon as he was trained...He never wanted a pull up again....

K., As for when to wear panties to bed, it really depends on the child. Here are some factors and indicators. Most kids will be lazy if they can meaning that if they can potty in their pants they will. When to go to panties is a messy trial and error somrtimes. The easiest way to tell is to let it happen. Put the panties on at nap time first and see if she gets up to go. If this works then go night time. Night time may be touch and go for a few days to get the brain caught up to the idea. The brain has had the idea that it's ok to go in the pants because they feel ok but when it catches on that baby feels yucky, then it will send the message faster that we need to get up this time. Be sure to use a plastic matress cover for awhile and be ready to wash sheets. The transition usually happens very fast, so have no fear dry sheets will soon be here. B.

From my experience, that of the parents in my Daycare & my many other siblings who have children of their own...If you let them have the pull-ups at night they'll use it as a crutch. She may have accidents for a while but you should take the pullups away. If you take them away and she continues having accidents "every" night...then you may want to let your Pediatrician know.

Hi K.,
Have you tried having your daughter go potty before bedtime? Even when my daughter (age 4) says she can't go, I have her sit on the toilet & turn the faucet on. Works every time!! =) We started doing that about a year ago, while keeping her pull-ups on. Within a few weeks, she stayed dry through the night.

GOOD LUCK! =)

I think you are doing the right thing. My girls started very young. My first daughter was completely potty trained at 21 months. My second at 24 months and finally my son took a little longer, but he was two and a half. What I did with my son is limit his drinking for about two hours before bedtime and during that time had him go potty every half hour or so. When the diaper came up dry for a couple nights, we switched to underwear. Good luck!

She may not wet at night if you cut back her fluids. One thing you could try is putting her undies on the inside of her pull up. That way she can get the sensation that those are her undies and she doesn't pee in her undies. Then if she does wet you don't have a mess to clean up! Maybe this will help!

When your daughter stays dry all night for many nights in a row. My daughter didn't stay dry at night till she was 5. She was too sound of a sleeper to wake up at night if she had to use the bathroom.

I started putting panties on my girl (3 today) when she started staying dry during the night. I think it's a hit and miss situation. Maybe do a "trial." Take her to the restroom before she goes to bed, don't give her any liquids right before, and explain to her that she's not wearing a pull up tonight. Perhaps since she knows the pull up is there, she is not getting up at night to let you know she has to go. Good Luck!!

I think my daugher only wore them to bed for a short time she was 2 1/2 when she began waking up dry and wanted to sit on the potty.
Once she woke up dry is when we started leaving her in panties. she is almost 3 now and has an accident in bed about once a month. We just clean it up and change her clothes. She is pretty good about getting up to go potty.
I think it depends on how often she wakes up dry. Maybe try putting her to bed a couple nights in panties and tell her if she has to go she can go to the potty.

Hi K. - She'll be ready for panties at bedtime when she wakes up dry in the morning for ~ a month - every time...Otherwise - you'll be changing the sheets every day...and that's not fun for you or her!

My daughter stopped wearing diapers at 2 yrs...but wore a pull-up/or diaper (whichever she chose) until she was over 3.5. But now - I've only had to change the sheets ~ 5 times in the last year (for wetting of course:))

Good luck!

My daughter wore pullups to bed untill she was 4 1/2. My husband and I decided that it was time to stop. We started waking her up when we would get up in the middle of the night so that she could also go potty. We only had to do that for about a month or 2. We have only had a couple accidents in the last 8 months. That seemed to work well for us.

Hey there.. Well I think if shes not wet when she gets up in the morning or if she gets upi in the night to pee then i dont see why not I mean shes gotta learn that just like everything else.. I just start tring to potty train my daughter.. Grr lol.. shes just over 2..

I went through this with my daughter, and then I just took the risk of just letting her wear panties to bed. she had a few accidents in the beginning, but I was willing to deal with that, and then, she just quit. Then, when ever she did have a pullup to bed, she'd pee in it. So I put underwear back on her and she wouldn't pee in it. You just might wanna try it and see what happens. You never know... :)

My daughter potty trained herself at 20 months but I still waited until she was over three before I stopped putting her in pull-ups over night. My experience was she never stopped peeing at night until she kept waking up with a soaking wet bed. The pull-ups kept her dry enough it never bothered her. But she hated being in a wet bed. Make sure you cut her off from drinks an hour before bedtime, at least in the beginning. I also recommend the training panties.. they are a little more absorbent. It will mean changing the sheets every night.. sometimes two or three times a night at first. But within two weeks her "accidents" became few and far between. She finally stopped having them altogether when she was closer to 4. Best of luck, hope this helps a little :)

Both of my sons were potty trained a few months before they turned 3, and both were in underware at night about 2 months after they were day trained. I knew it was time when they woke up dry in the mornings, or were dry for a bit and then peed in their pull-ups. My 3 year old had one accident during a nap time, but other then that I haven't had to clean up any messes so they were ready. I think that it's a hit or miss thing. Some kids just arn't ready to be night dry for a long time. Others need you to "run out of pull-ups" before making the leap, and others just do it. Good luck!

Hi K.,
I have great admiration and respect for you for taking on two teenagers, on top of your 2 girls. Good for you! Now, about the pull-ups. I don't know if it will work for you, but it did the trick for me. It was taking forever to get that anticipated dry pull-up in the mornings, so we made a cute little chart (with a pic of her on the big girl potty) and every time she used the potty on her own-she'd get a star on the chart. If she woke up with a completely dry pull-up, she got a special glittery star. Sounds so simple put it did the trick. It took less than one week for her to discard those bulky ol' things and get in to her much coveted "sponge bob" panties. To help fuel her incentive, let her shop with you to pick out all the stuff you'll use on her chart. I still have my daughter's chart as a memento of that time in her life and she is 17 now! Wouldn't she just love it if I brought it out to share with future boyfriends?! Ha-ha-ha!

Best of luck to you and again, thank you for stepping up to the plate with the teenagers. You should be very proud of yourself for making the right decision -- not the EASY decision--but the right one. You've already changed two lives and now you're working on two more. I wish we could clone you!

V.

I just got done reading all the responses and I just wanted to say I know what you are going through, we're going through the same thing here! My daughter is 3 1/2 and has been day trained for a year now. I've tried lots of the tips suggested here and nothing seems to work so far. I'm just convinced that she isnt ready and she's a heavy sleeper. She doesnt stay dry at night no matter what and I cant get her to wake up during the night to go. Soooo pull ups it is until she stays dry on her own. I hope some of the tips suggested work for you. and if not, dont sweat it! she'll get it in her own time.

Hi K. -
I was reading through the responces and I have to disagree. I think that kids don't learn to not 'have accidents' as long as they wear pull-ups. i had tried to potty train my son for over a year, while still using Pull-Ups and he didn't actually potty train until we got rid of them completely. We had a kind of potty-train bootcamp starting on a Saturday morning and then by Monday he was compleetly potty trained with only an occasional accident. I think that although you may have a few bed-wetting accidents at first, that's what a mattress bad is for so just get rid of pullups and get ready to do a little extra laundry. Once your daughter understands that she's a big girl and big girls don't go potty in the bed, shell be good. I say, get rid of Pull-Ups now evernthough she may have an accident or 2. It will go much quicker then trying to wait it out. :o)

well for me i switched them to pampers to underwear. my first use to use the bathroom (number 2) in the pampers till she turned 2 1/2. then she just went on her own. i didnt switch her ot pull ups cuase it's just like pampers. im not gonna lie. they're was accidents along the way. it really just takes time and patience. dont yell or tease when this happens. what i did do is bought viynl sheets. so if she did go during the night i could wash the sheets and blankets. try buying her some pretty unders. with the characters. this made it easier with my second kid. she saw her older sis wearing them. but you know they're are kids w/ this problem at older age. they will grow out of this. you never see an adult or young adult wearing pullups or diapers to school or out and about. hang in there.

our daughter will be 4 in March. She daytime trained right before she turned 3.We kept a calendar once we started to notice periodic dry pull ups. Once she had a whole month of dry pull-ups we graduated her to panties. The calendar let us see how her night time bladder control was developing. She has been in panties since last October and has never had a nighttime accident. ON the flip side our almost 6 year old daughter still wears a pull up to bed as she rarely has dry pull ups. Each child develops nighttime bladder control at a different rate and children even as old as 8 having nighttime bladder problems is still within the normal reange ( or so i have been told)Sorry it doesn't exactly asnwer your question other than use nighttime dryness as a gauge rather than age.